Teachers in Rhode Island currently maintain their certification by showing evidence of continuous professional development. Creating an IPlan and reviewing the IPlan of a peer is a unit-wide assignment in the School of Education for all student teachers. The steps below are designed to guide you through this process so that we can complete it efficiently.
Complete the form based on one of the lessons you taught last week. Be sure to write down specific evidence from either your lesson plan or your memory of your enactment for each assessment you give.
Use a highlighter to identify areas of your teaching/lesson that were either below standard or that you feel needs improvement
Synthesize your review by completing the following table as best your can:
What is the need?
How will improvement help your students?
How will improvement help your school?
RIBT Standard/Element Addressed?
1.
Deepen knowledge of how to enact inquiry.
Inquiry on the NECAP; Deeper understanding of content
Better prepared for NECAP/use common language in inquiry tasks similar to NECAP
Critical Thinking
2.
Be more knowledgeable of content.
Keep them challenged and engaged/ current
More motivated to learn and able to broaden topics covered.
Content Pedagogy
3.
4.
Formulate a professional development goal based the needs that you have identified. This goal should be:
measurable/observable
should lead to improvement of teaching, student achievement, and/or improvement of learning environment.
should describe new knowledge or skills that you will acquire and how that knowledge/skill will affect the school/district setting.
linked to applicable Rhode Island Beginning Teacher Standards and elements, e.g. RIBTS 2.4.
In the space below, describe your professional development goal. In a second paragraph, use the information above to provide a rationale for your goal by explaining the personal need that it will address as well as how addressing this goal benefits your students and your school.
I. Professional Development Goal
I would like to deepen my knowledge of how to enact inquiry activities in the classroom. There are inquiry activities on the NECAP. Students need to be able to excel when taking the NECAP and feel prepared. I want them to have a deeper understanding of the content and then be able to apply that content proficiency to the NECAP. There has been a lot of controversy on how to enact inquiry in the classroom effectively. I feel that the information I have been given is vague and board. What students are doing in the classroom currently seems so far from what inquiry and requires of them. I want to be able to bring inquiry into the classroom in a gradual manner. Often times students don't have the opportunity to practice the types of inquiry questions they will be asked on the NECAP and most of the time it is the language used that confuses them. If I understand what inquiry activities entail, then I feel I will be able to incorporate them easily into my lessons.
Now that you have a PD goal, think about what type of learning opportunities you will participate in to address your needs. Use these links to investigate learning options:
Based on what you have found out, write a 1-2 paragraph narrative outlining at least two ways (PD categories) you will engage in engage in by the end of your first year of teaching. For each activity, explain how you think it will address the need that you have identified.
II. Professional Development Plan
In order to grow as a teacher, I must continue to learn new techniques and become more knowledgeable. I can join Rhode Island Science Teachers Association and attend various workshops they offer regarding inquiry as well as the many others they offer. Once I feel comfortable with an inquiry based curriculum, I will be able to take various topics and create an inquiry style lesson. This will also help me to meet other teachers in the field and see how they are implementing inquiry in a variety of content areas and grade levels.
I can also take summer courses to learn the principles of inquiry instruction. The instructors will have the most current information in this area and will help me to have a deeper understanding of what is involved in creating and implementing inquiry in the classroom.
GEMS-NET workshops would also be very beneficial to attend regarding inquiry activities. The people who lead these workshops are teachers themselves and know what works and what doesn't. These workshops also allow you the opportunity to actually try a sample inquiry activity out and they also give you all the materials you need to do the activity. These instructors have personally tried out the activities in their own classrooms and provide sample student work at the workshop for observation. This helps to really see inquiry in action and be able to personally take on inquiry activities in my own classroom.
Print your PD plan to PDF
Post your PD Plan to True Outcomes
Return to True Outcomes to evaluate a peer's plan the following week.
EDC 484 IPlan Peer Evaluation
Teachers in Rhode Island currently maintain their certification by showing evidence of continuous professional development. Creating an IPlan and reviewing the IPlan of a peer is a unit-wide assignment in the School of Education for all student teachers. The steps below are designed to guide you through this process so that we can complete it efficiently.Formulate a professional development goal based the needs that you have identified. This goal should be:
In the space below, describe your professional development goal. In a second paragraph, use the information above to provide a rationale for your goal by explaining the personal need that it will address as well as how addressing this goal benefits your students and your school.
I. Professional Development Goal
I would like to deepen my knowledge of how to enact inquiry activities in the classroom.There are inquiry activities on the NECAP. Students need to be able to excel when taking the NECAP and feel prepared. I want them to have a deeper understanding of the content and then be able to apply that content proficiency to the NECAP. There has been a lot of controversy on how to enact inquiry in the classroom effectively. I feel that the information I have been given is vague and board. What students are doing in the classroom currently seems so far from what inquiry and requires of them. I want to be able to bring inquiry into the classroom in a gradual manner. Often times students don't have the opportunity to practice the types of inquiry questions they will be asked on the NECAP and most of the time it is the language used that confuses them. If I understand what inquiry activities entail, then I feel I will be able to incorporate them easily into my lessons.
Based on what you have found out, write a 1-2 paragraph narrative outlining at least two ways (PD categories) you will engage in engage in by the end of your first year of teaching. For each activity, explain how you think it will address the need that you have identified.
II. Professional Development Plan
In order to grow as a teacher, I must continue to learn new techniques and become more knowledgeable. I can join Rhode Island Science Teachers Association and attend various workshops they offer regarding inquiry as well as the many others they offer. Once I feel comfortable with an inquiry based curriculum, I will be able to take various topics and create an inquiry style lesson. This will also help me to meet other teachers in the field and see how they are implementing inquiry in a variety of content areas and grade levels.I can also take summer courses to learn the principles of inquiry instruction. The instructors will have the most current information in this area and will help me to have a deeper understanding of what is involved in creating and implementing inquiry in the classroom.
GEMS-NET workshops would also be very beneficial to attend regarding inquiry activities. The people who lead these workshops are teachers themselves and know what works and what doesn't. These workshops also allow you the opportunity to actually try a sample inquiry activity out and they also give you all the materials you need to do the activity. These instructors have personally tried out the activities in their own classrooms and provide sample student work at the workshop for observation. This helps to really see inquiry in action and be able to personally take on inquiry activities in my own classroom.